Ruderman–Kittel–Kasuya–Yosida (RKKY) interaction in Weyl semimetals with tilted energy dispersion

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/ACB2E4MaRDI QIDQ6042410zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anirban Kundu, M. B. A. Jalil

Publication date 10 May 2023

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04437

zbMATH Keywords

tilted dispersionWeyl semimetal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) is an essential long range magnetic interaction between magnetic impurities or magnetic layered structures, the magnitude of which oscillates with the distance ($mathrmR$) between them. We have investigated the RKKY interaction between two magnetic impurities in both time-reversal and inversion symmetry broken Weyl semimetals (WSMs) where the energy dispersion is tilted in momentum space and the momentum of the conduction electron is locked with the pseudo-spin. Two important features are revealed, firstly, at the small tilt limit, we show that the RKKY coupling varies quadratically with the tilt parameter and strikingly, at large separation distance $mathrmR$, the coupling decays as $1/mathrmR$ compared to the conventional of $1/mathrm{R}^3$ dependence exhibited by WSMs with non-tilted dispersion. The slower decay by two orders i.e. ($1/mathrmR$ as opposed to $1/mathrm{R}^3$) of the RKKY coupling is significant for maintaining long range RKKY coupling. Secondly, the RKKY coupling exhibits an anisotropy with respect to the angle between the tilt direction ($mathbfw$) and the separation direction $mathbfR$ unlike the case of non-tilted WSMs which exhibit isotropic RKKY coupling. Consequently, the RKKY coupling in tilted WSMs alternately favours ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic orders and vice-versa with the change of the angle. Our results are derived analytically and verified by numerical calculations based on realistic parameter values.

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